labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of overconfidence, and preferences for … and overconfidence, but not risk aversion, is systematically related with expectations about future earnings: individuals … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18% of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These experimental …

-economic status and poorer health are relatively less likely to realize how unhealthy they are and this overconfidence is associated …

longitudinal data from childhood into mid-career and construct a measure of overconfidence using multiple measures of objective … measure of overconfidence. Our results show that men being more overconfident explains 5-11 percent of the gender gap in top … overconfidence matters for gender inequality in the labor market and has implications for how firms recruit and promote workers …

−D). We show that the health overconfidence displayed by approximately 30% of the survey respondents is a clear risk factor … cases and deaths. Recent research has shown that health overconfidence can influence risky behaviors such as smoking and … for the implementation of effective interventions to temper overconfidence, particularly in uncontrollable situations like …

We analyze the impact of (over-)confidence on gender differences in expected starting salaries using elicited beliefs … gender gap in wage expectations is attributable to a higher overconfidence of males. Decompositions of the unconditional …